KOTA: Following the brutal murder of a 16-year-old boy outside the grain mandi gate in Baran city, prohibitory orders under Section 144 have been clamped and internet services suspended in Baran municipal council area till Monday 3am.
The CCTV footage from the mandi gate that had captured the crime committed on Saturday evening had gone viral by late night. The key accused, who has been identified as Hemant Rathore, fired two rounds at the boy who was walking on the road outside the gate. When he noticed that the body was still moving, he thrashed him with an iron rod till he died.
Those who witnessed the incident panicked and failed to stop the culprits.
Past enmity led to murder, says Baran SP
The accused youth strolled up and down the road for 4-5 minutes, but no one dared to nab him. The deceased has been identified as Aazad, son of Ishthaque, a resident of Shramik Colony in Talab Para area of Baran city.
On Sunday, police arrested Rathore and his two aides, identified as Manish Goutam, alias Bittu Sharma, and Rohit Nagar, alias Rahit Amlawada. Attempts are being made to arrest 4-5 other people named in the FIR, Baran SP Vineet Bansal said. He added that past enmity between the two groups had led to the murder.
Though the situation remained peaceful with no untoward incidents reported on Sunday, the district administration imposed Section 144 and banned internet services as a precautionary measure, the SP said.
“The murder was a result of old enmity and had no communal angle,” Baran ASP Vijay Swarnkar said.
On Friday, Rathore and others had lodged a complaint of being thrashed and beaten against Aazad at the Baran Sadar police station, police said.
